San Marcos paramedic and EMT salary, 2025
San Marcos is a city in San Diego County. 53 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for San Marcos in 2025. Fewer than 5 of them worked the full year, so there is no average that wouldn't describe individual people. The official range for its paramedic and EMT titles runs from $66,394 to $91,877.
What does San Marcos pay its paramedics and EMTs?
Official pay range1
$66,394 to $91,877
from the lowest entry salary to the top of the highest paramedic and EMT title
Average total pay, full-year paramedics and EMTs1
Fewer than 5
53 paramedics and EMTs in all, 2 of them full-year: too few for an average.
- Median total pay
- Fewer than 5
- the middle paramedic and EMT: half earned more, half less
- Overtime
- Fewer than 5
- average per full-year paramedic and EMT
- Starting salary
- $66,394
- bottom of the Emergency Medical Technician (Ft) range
- Average pay rank
- Fewer than 5
- too few full-year staff to rank
What does each paramedic and EMT title at San Marcos pay?
Each bar is the official range for one title, lowest first. The dot marks the average total pay of full-year staff in that title, where at least 5 people stand behind it.1
- Emergency Medical Technician (Pt)Fewer than 5
- Emergency Medical Technician (Ft)Fewer than 5
official range average total pay, full year. "Fewer than 5" means too few full-year people in that title to show.
Firefighter-paramedic pay at San Marcos
Counted on their own, kept out of the paramedic and EMT figures on this page. Firefighter-paramedics are firefighters whose title names paramedic duties. Range: the middle reported bottom and top of each group's official ranges. Pay: average total pay of full-year staff, overtime included.1
| Staff | People | Official range | Average total pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firefighter-paramedics | 29 | $89,847 to $124,332 | $166,494 |
What do paramedics and EMTs earn around San Marcos?
Average total pay of full-year paramedics and EMTs across San Diego County and across California. San Marcos's own average isn't shown: fewer than 5 of its paramedics and EMTs worked the full year.1
- All employers in San Diego County$93,366
- All employers in California$92,008
Full-year paramedics and EMTs across San Diego County earned an average of $93,366 in 2025, $1,358 more than the California average.
Pension and health cover at San Marcos
As reported by the city. Contributions are what the employer paid per full-year paramedic and EMT, on top of wages.1
- Pension formula
- 2% at 62
- the most common formula among San Marcos's paramedics and EMTs
- Employer pension contribution
- Fewer than 5
- average per year
- Health, dental and vision
- Fewer than 5
- average paid by the employer per year
Questions about paramedic and EMT pay at San Marcos
Why is there no average paramedic and EMT salary for San Marcos?
53 people worked as paramedics and EMTs for San Marcos in 2025, but fewer than 5 of them worked the full year. Every figure on Public Paycheck covers at least 5 people, so none describes one person.
What is the pay range for a paramedic and EMT at San Marcos?
The official range across San Marcos's paramedic and EMT titles runs from $66,394 to $91,877 in 2025. For comparison, full-year paramedics and EMTs across San Diego County earned an average of $93,366.
What is the starting salary for a paramedic and EMT at San Marcos?
$66,394 a year: the bottom of the official range for San Marcos's Emergency Medical Technician (Ft) title in 2025, as reported. Pay rises with steps and overtime.
How much does a firefighter-paramedic make at San Marcos?
Full-year firefighter-paramedics at San Marcos averaged $166,494 in total pay in 2025, overtime included, on an official range of $89,847 to $124,332.
What pension do paramedics and EMTs at San Marcos get?
The most common pension formula among San Marcos's paramedics and EMTs is 2% at 62, as reported by the city.
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- Chula Vista$119,819 average total pay
- North County Fire Protection District (San Diego)$106,282 average total pay
- Escondido$81,060 average total pay
- Carlsbad$80,004 average total pay
- Oceanside$73,521 average total pay
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- Firefighter salaries at San Marcos$166,494 average total pay
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Sources for the San Marcos figures
Every person who held a paramedic and EMT position at San Marcos at any point in 2025 counts toward the headcount. Pay figures use only people who worked roughly the full year: those whose regular pay reached at least 90% of the bottom of their official range. Total pay is gross wages before tax, including overtime, lump sums and other pay. Averages lead; the median total pay is the middle person's, with half above and half below, and is less pulled by a few people with very high pay. Every figure covers at least 5 people.
- State Controller's Office, Government Compensation in California, 2025: positions, official pay ranges, wages, pension formula and employer contributions as reported by San Marcos.